Making a Melee-oriented Warlock- any tips?

[IanB]

You can play a non-evil warlock, certainly - but in an average setting, a non-evil warlock/cleric isn't usually going to fit well - and evil characters are often hugely disruptive. If it meshes with your campaign, though, feel free obviously.

 

[UltimaGabe]

You can play a non-evil warlock, certainly - but in an average setting, a non-evil warlock/cleric isn't usually going to fit well - and evil characters are often hugely disruptive. If it meshes with your campaign, though, feel free obviously.

Evil characters are only disruptive if the player doesn't know what he's doing. Good and evil people get along very well in the real world (with the exception of obvious disagreements), so if the player is a very good roleplayer, it shouldn't be a problem. Being evil doesn't necessarily mean killing random people and stealing all the time.

That said, do Warlocks have to have evil benefactors? I mean, I don't have the book on me at the moment, so I can't check, but who says that the source of their power has to be evil? Couldn't it just be some powerful non-good entity? Either way, Clerics only have to be within one step of their deity's alignment, so there could very easily be a Chaotic Good Warlock who's the Cleric of a Chaotic Neutral deity. Neutral Deities, since they aren't good or evil (and there's very few powerful neutral outsiders), pretty much have to end up having good AND evil followers. It's quite possible for a Chaotic Good Cleric/Warlock of a Chaotic Neutral deity to have gotten his Warlock powers from one of this deity's evil servants without the Warlock or the Deity being evil.

 

[shilsen]

That said, do Warlocks have to have evil benefactors? I mean, I don't have the book on me at the moment, so I can't check, but who says that the source of their power has to be evil? Couldn't it just be some powerful non-good entity? Either way, Clerics only have to be within one step of their deity's alignment, so there could very easily be a Chaotic Good Warlock who's the Cleric of a Chaotic Neutral deity. Neutral Deities, since they aren't good or evil (and there's very few powerful neutral outsiders), pretty much have to end up having good AND evil followers. It's quite possible for a Chaotic Good Cleric/Warlock of a Chaotic Neutral deity to have gotten his Warlock powers from one of this deity's evil servants without the Warlock or the Deity being evil.

Warlocks only have to be any evil or any chaotic, so a CG warlock works just fine. Also, a warlock doesn't need a direct benefactor. The flavor text says that some warlocks can be descended from those who trafficked with demons and devils long ago, some can seek out the dark powers through ambition, and some are blameless individuals chosen by supernatural forces as conduits and tools. Lastly, many warlocks are created by nonevil powers. So you have lots of options.

 

[dragon lord]

ok, i'm looking at the books. now clerics can only cast spells of their type so good=heal, and evil=inflict. warlock have to obtian their power from demons of some sort, not dieties. they can be good but they have to be chaotic if they are. Because of of the evil inside a warlock only evil dieties can accept them.

 

[RigaMortus2]

As has been mentioned elsewhere you cannot take Spring Attack as the Spring Attack only works with "attack actions" and the Hideous Blow is a "standard action" but a nice DM might relax this technicality.

Any other ideas out there?

This is true about Spring Attack, however... Once you hit level 6 in Warlock you can take Fell Flight invocation and Fly-By Attack feat, which is similiar to Spring Attack but allows you to make a Standard Action in the middle of your movement.